You’ve got an NL West battle for home-field Wild Card supremacy. You’ve got the Rockies scoring three, then the D-Backs scoring two. An inning going back and forth, a lot on the line.

You’ve got all that, you’ve got a lot.

But this shift? This shift was something else.

“The LeMahieu Shift is on,” they say on the broadcast. “There is NO ONE in left field.”

Just to remind you all, D.J. LeMahieu is a right-handed hitter. Right-handed. He pulls the ball—assuming he must sometimes pull the ball—to left-field. The Diamondbacks have just put out a defense with no left-fielder.

If the guy doinks a fly ball anywhere between the foul line and left-center, it’s a stand-up double. The game is tied. This is no meaningless game. What the f*ck are they thinking?

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